Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said Rs.50,000 crore have been earmarked by the government to develop 100 smart cities in the country, adding that each selected city would get central assistance of Rs.100 crore per year for five years.

Terming land acquisition as one of the "difficult acts" in India, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya on Saturday said it can easily take up to 5 years for acquiring land for a large project including building of cities.

Congress today accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "manufacturing crises to hide his failures" as it slammed Delhi government for not sending any representatives to an "important" Joint Cadre Control Authority (JCCA) meeting.

The Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal today criticised the Centre for the transfer of senior bureaucrats, accusing them of crossing all limits by not consulting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. Mr Kejriwal also wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the issue.

Arvind Kejriwal's government was censured today by judges who said its mega advertising campaign appears to violate new Supreme Court rules that ban politicians from wasting taxpayers' money on promoting their accomplishments.

Whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who has been named for the Ramon Magsaysay Award, has sharply criticised the Prime Minister's Office and said: "It is only because of an independent judiciary that I was able to survive."

The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has decided to withdraw an aggressive ad campaign from hoardings and on air, in "a mark of respect," it said, for former president APJ Abdul Kalam, who died on Monday.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government today moved Delhi High Court seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) chief MK Meena for allegedly violating the court's order by removing an SHO of the anti-graft body.

A city court would hear in September a criminal complaint seeking action against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly exhorting voters to take bribe from Congress and BJP and vote for AAP in the last assembly elections.

The Centre today told the Delhi High Court that the Supreme Court ruling that taxpayers' money cannot be spent to build the image of political leaders was "applicable" to all states and Union Territories including the national capital.

The Supreme Court's ruling that taxpayers' money cannot be spent to build the image of political leaders, is applicable to all states and Union Territories including Delhi, the Centre told the Delhi High Court today.

Normal life was disrupted in Bihar today as shops, educational institutions and some trains were forced to stop functioing as lathi-wielding mobs took to the streets over the day-long state bandh called by RJD.